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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2016
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Louis-Philippe Hamelin, Montreal, CA;
Peter Man-Kin Sinn, Nepean, CA;
Chang Lee, Montreal, CA;
Paul Alepin, Montreal, CA;
Guy-Armand Kamendje Ichokobou, Verdun, CA;
Olivier D'Arcy, Longueuil, CA;
John Edward Vincent, Ottawa, CA;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
The method can be performed in a processor integrated circuit having an instruction decoder and a plurality of shared resources, a resource tracker circuit having a plurality of credit units associated with corresponding ones of the shared resources in a manner to be updatable based on availability of the shared resources, and a resource matcher connected to receive a resource requirement signal from the decoder and connected to receive a resource availability signal from the resource tracker. The method can include performing a determination of whether or not the resource requirement signal matches the resource availability signal, and, upon a positive determination, dispatching corresponding instruction data, updating the status of a corresponding one or more of the credit units, and preventing the resource matcher from performing a subsequent determination for a given period of time after the positive determination.